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26 pp. Original wrappers. Pencil line in margin along a paragraph on p. 16. Very Good. First Edition. INSCRIBED BY HARVEY CUSHING TO ARNOLD C. KLEBS: "A.C.K./ with greetings/ H.C." With the ink stamp "COLLECT: A. C. KLEBS" on the front wrapper. The ink stamp has been filled in with the word "author" written in pencil next to "from" and "Sept. 1927" written in pencil next to "date". On both the front wrapper and the title page, there are these notes: "Bibliography H.C. (1939) no. 247" and "1927". Cushing Bibliography no. 247. "An address that represents Cushing at his literary best. . . . Cushing's avidity in seeking out bookish information is particularly well illustrated. . ." (Fulton, Harvey Cushing, pp. 541-42). A marvelous association between two great bibliophiles who were also close friends. The personal libraries of Harvey Cushing, Arnold Klebs, and John Fulton were donated to Yale University as part of a combined endeavor. Here is what the third party in that endeavor, John Fulton, wrote in his biography of Cushing about the relationship between Cushing and Klebs (there are a great many pages in the biography in which Fulton writes about the two): "In the same letter [of February 2, 1906] there occurs the first mention of a man who came to be one of Harvey Cushing's enduring friends--a man who, because of his personal affection for Cushing, decided just before his death to leave his magnificent library to Yale University where it would join that of H.C. 'There is a nice man named Klebs, almost too nice to live in Chicago--who has been down here on an occasional visit, and who turned up again a day or two ago to say how-do-you-do to us and good-bye to Dr. Osler. He is the son of Professor Klebs, of the Klebs-Loeffler bacillus fame. A few years ago he was down here as a sort of cicerone for Dr. Babcock, the blind heart specialist in Chicago, who proved to be a classmate of Will's and a most charming man. I am now getting down to the reason for this preamble. Klebs, after returning home, sat down and dictated a long letter about his visit and its details, the people he saw and the things he had done, copies of which were struck off on a mimeograph and sent to his many relatives in Germany and elsewhere. This is his usual custom. One of the copies found its way down here, so that we learned what Klebs thought of us in a pleasant and indirect way. I do not expect Miss Humpton to mimeograph this letter, but I have got so much to say and so little time to say it in that I am going to "Klebs-ize" this long-delayed letter to you.' It is curious that men of such strikingly different personalities should have developed such a profound bond of friendship and understanding, for Arnold Carl Klebs, with his Teutonic background and upbringing, his imperious nature that knew little restraint, differed utterly from Cushing. H.C. was a Puritan at heart, and while he too had a somewhat impetuous nature, he ruled himself with unyielding determination. He cared little for food and drink, while Klebs loved both--like Halsted Klebs was at heart a hedonist and an epicure. Klebs greatly admired the freshness and vigor of life in the United States, and Cushing to him seemed to exemplify everything that he liked best in America and Americans--he was industrious, he had a gay wit and a keen sense of literary values. After 'A.C.K.' retired to Switzerland in 1912, he corresponded, like Albrecht von Haller, with nearly every one of medical importance in Christendom, and a rich and unusual exchange of letters developed between the two men, extending from 1912 to the time of Cushing's death in 1939" (Fulton, Harvey Cushing, p. 247). N° de ref. del artículo 16883
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